Sophie long. The amazon is on fire, threatening vital resources. Hat brazils president says his government does nove the funds to fight the blazes. A warm welcome for the british Prime Minister in paris, but differences remain when it comes to brexit. And losing the family farm. After decades of milking the cows, some are finng it too tough to make ends meet. Sophie for those watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. Right now fires are burning across the amazon rainforest, and bras president says his government lacks the resources to fight them. Blazes are a regular occurrence during this season, but figures show the number of fires has surged 83 from the same period last year. Critics say the president s policies are partly to blame. From sao paulo, this report. Reporter fire in the amazon rainforest. This is happening in the worldn largesmost important ecosystem that is home to 3 million species of plants and animals and one million indigenouseople. It gen
New york stock exchange. The u. S. china trade war taking a bite out of apple, now on pace for the worst day in over a week as the white houses 15 tariff on a new batch of goods goes into effect over the weekend obviously, a big story for the markets. Apple products expected to be hit this time around include the apple watch, air pods, the home pod, imax, and some beat headphones for more on where the stock may go from here, were joined by an apple bear, Pierre Ferragu has a sell on the stock, a 170 target. Also with us, apple bull, daniel flax, whose target is, daniel . Carl, i cant give you a specific target, but what i can say is that while the nearterm environment certainly remains sluggish with iphone and clearly theres a risk in terms of higher prices from tariffs impacting demand, we see a lot that we like over the medium term and i say that because the iphone install base is continuing to grow the company has opportunities to show additional growth with Newer Services like tv a
Authorities in the bahamas defend their response to hurricane dorian. We report from the abaco islands where tens of thousands are still desperate for help. Two years after hundreds of thousands of rohingyas were driven out of myanmar, all traces of where they lived are being erased from the landscape. We have a special report. And, as the long awaited sequel to the handmaids tale is published, author Margaret Atwood tells the bbc her storys closer to reality than ever. In another day of high drama, the British Parliament has again rejected the Prime Ministers call for a snap general election. Its the sixth defeat for borisjohnson in a little over a week. In a fiery final debate before parliament is controversially suspended for five weeks, mrjohnson insisted that he would not ask the eu for an extension to the date of brexit, in spite of a law passed by mps compelling him to do so. Opposition leaders accused the Prime Minister of trying to call an election to secure a no deal brexit b
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I know the h1b. I know the h2b. Nobody knows it better than me. A lot of people dont realize abraham lincoln, the great abraham lincoln, was a republican. laughter i love the poorly educated laughter its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, not so sharpie plus, stephen welcomes vooip joe biden. And musical guest pixies. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hello how are you . Jon please have a seat, everybody. Thank you very much. Welcome, welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. The big story the big story continues to be hurrican dorian, which, as we speak, is churning towards my home town of charleston, south carolina, which is under a mandatory evacuation. I hope everyone down there stays safe. Dorian devastated the bahamas over the weekend. And we all want to help, so last night, i talked to our friend Chef Jose Andres of world